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Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges (UnCivil Wars Ser.)

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“It’s well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we’ve got grown too fond of it, and subsequently we should make the war ter­rible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, every contributor uses a seemingly peculiar story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light at the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is at all times about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged.

Here then isn’t just the grandness of the Civil War but its more than occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those that lost by it―and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters, and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war.

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